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NEW YORK -- Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...

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Not every modern human has the same set of Neanderthal DNA, however; different people will, by chance, have inherited different fragments. But there are also some areas, termed “Neanderthal deserts,” ...

The Neanderthals were our closest human relatives, and roamed the Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago. Although they are long extinct, their genes still live in us today. Neanderthals were ...